Sentences with phrase «how natural ecosystems»

Instead, our goal has been to offer a basic scientific understanding of how natural ecosystems work and how they sustain life on earth.

If a large amount of nitrogen comes from rocks, it helps explain how natural ecosystems like boreal forests are capable of taking up high levels of carbon dioxide.

Berlow's research analyzes how natural ecosystems, with many species that are all interdependent — for example, a fox might eat mice and rats — and what happens if one of the animals goes extinct.

A survey of the scientific literature had turned up no published accounts of how a natural ecosystem responds to a tsunami.

By contrasting a plentiful wall of foliage with the plastic synthetic coating he uses to meticulously cover the surface, the artist hopes to show how the natural ecosystem remains an instrument of human utility.

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Second, using «ecosystem» in this particular business context implies that there's some sort of natural order in how these players interact, with each participant playing a pre-ordained role.

Questions of how human infrastructure or natural ecosystems might be affected are almost completely unexplored, he said.

«We should be thinking of ways to reduce our negative effects on the natural environment and these results show that if we do basic conservation and management, it can make a big difference in terms of how ecosystems will weather climate change,» Harley said.

«If we can understand how the landscape has changed over decades and what that does to water quality, human health, and ecosystem health, we can begin to make predictions for the future,» said senior author Kathleen Alexander, professor of wildlife conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

Dr Greg Edgecombe from The Natural History Museum in London, a co-author on the study, says: «Evidence of symbiotic relationships are rare in the invertebrate fossil record, and this beautiful example shows how these associations began to develop as ecosystems became more complex in the Cambrian Period.

Policymakers need to figure out how to supply water without degrading the natural ecosystems that provide it.

Simultaneously, the bleakly reductionist view of evolution as a product of nothing more than the sum of individual self - interest, common currency in the past half - century, is softening as we consider how natural selection may work even at the level of entire ecosystems.

Researchers also study the metabolism of some less - than - natural ecosystems — large cities — in terms of how urban areas consume resources and generate waste.

Using these historical records, University of Missouri researchers were able to shed new light on how the interaction of natural disturbances, such as wildfires, and human actions shape forest conditions and the ecosystem services that forests provide today.

Eavesdropping on Ecosystems describes how researchers have collected massive datasets of natural sounds — from bird calls and insect chirps to thunderclaps — to build up aural maps of eEcosystems describes how researchers have collected massive datasets of natural sounds — from bird calls and insect chirps to thunderclaps — to build up aural maps of ecosystemsecosystems.

Much remains unknown about how most introduced species affect natural ecosystems.

That makes the region «a natural laboratory to study how coral reef ecosystems are structured and function under these acidic conditions.»

«Forecasting how a major coastal ecosystem, the Chesapeake Bay, responds to decreasing nutrient pollution is a challenge due to year - to - year variations and natural lags,» said Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

«Our take home message is that while it's important for us to continue to research how we can improve the health of managed honey bee colonies for agricultural success, we need to further understand how this cosmopolitan and highly successful species impacts the ecology and evolutionary dynamics of plant and pollinator species in natural ecosystems,» said Hung.

It also illustrates how the diverse ecosystem services rendered by the coasts are being subjected to increasing pressure, and profiles measures that will be necessary in the future to respond effectively to the threats from both climate change and natural disasters.

But we wanted to observe the natural development of the plankton ecosystem from the first productivity in late winter until summer, closely monitor the succession of the plankton communities and follow how effects of ocean acidification are transmitted from one generation to the next,» Riebesell explains.

An example is working with locals to learn about their natural parks and wildlife, and how to protect those ecosystems.

Growing up in the Australian bush lead them to study Zoology and Natural Resource Management and during this time they learned how fragile the world's ecosystems are.

The findings of a new hybrid species of shark goes to show just how versatile life can be in dealing with the ecosystem altering forces of climate change — proving yet again that within the depths of the world's oceans and its most keenly adapted inhabitants, there may be no shortage of natural marvels and awesome phenomena left to be discovered.

The aims of the project are to (a) compile an overview of natural disasters in the Nordic region and how ecological restoration actions can be used to mitigate such hazards (b) conduct regional feasibility case studies of strategic build up of ecosystem resilience which will be ongoing throughout the project time and (c) recommend actions to enhance build up of ecosystem resilience in the Nordic region..

His research focuses on the causes, consequences, and conservation of Earth's biodiversity, and on how managed and natural ecosystems can sustainably meet human needs for food, energy, and ecosystem services.

After losing 80 % of the world's natural and intact forest habitats, mostly to agriculture, few people stop to wonder how Earth can accommodate these additional demands upon plants» primary productivity and still produce food, preserve wild places and maintain ecosystems required to maintain a habitable Earth.

Episode 4: Restoration — how the earth's natural ecosystems will be affected by climate change and how we can use nature to reverse the trend

The Energy Footprint: How Oil, Natural Gas, and Wind Energy Affect Land for Biodiversity and the Flow of Ecosystem Services.

This guidance document explains how climate change is already hurting the rural poor, damaging infrastructure, depressing crop yields, jeopardizing fish stocks, eroding natural resources and endangering species, causing significant damage to agriculture, water resources, ecosystems, and human health.

They studied conservation values like wilderness protection and restoration processes as well as a number of variables, including how much human modification the land has experienced, how important the land is as a natural linkage between protected areas, how well the land's ecosystems are represented within existing protected areas, and whether a place is rich in rare and endemic species.

Furthermore, by working in controlled areas of a natural reef community, Caldeira, Albright, and their team were able to demonstrate how acidification affects coral reefs on the ecosystem scale, not just in terms of individual organisms or species, as other studies have done.

His research focuses on the causes, consequences, and conservation of earth's biodiversity, and on how managed and natural ecosystems can sustainably meet human needs for food, energy and ecosystem services.

Recently, his work has focused on estimating how the extraction of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale has impacted the provision of ecosystem services from the local environment.

This episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how this relates to the false idea that there is a balance of nature...

George Van Dyne then tried to build a computer model to try to simulate a complete ecosystem based on extensive real - world data, to show how the stability of natural systems actually worked.